I’ve been driving this car for a couple of months now and I can’t say I’m in love with it. I charge from home and it takes much longer than the review suggests, and the max range I can get out of it is about 120 miles - just not good enough for any long trip in the Uk. Shame, as it’s lovely to drive and very comfortable.
I wish all presenters would test the range fully before they make a guess with "manufacturer says car does 200 miles but i doubt it will" - maybe they should do some real work rather than rehash marketing materials and apply their "gut feelings" with stuff that can be demonstrated.
Another quality review, the car may not be electrifying in appearance, but the presentation is. Enough corn in this review to cover several of your 5 a day. 😁
Depends on the model. DS7 is way more masculine, as it is also targetted at men: www.jchallidayandsons.com/images/used-cars/24219/MK18LPF1.jpg, DS3 is a city crossover targetted at women. Saying DS is feminine is like saying Volkswagen is a feminine brand, because they produced new beetle, which was targetted at females. But in reality beetle was just one model. BTW Recently released DS9 is also not feminine, their concepts aren't too feminine either: www.autocar.co.uk/sites/autocar.co.uk/files/images/car-reviews/first-drives/legacy/geneva-1-399.jpg
Sadly they should have kept the original DS3 as a small hatchback rival to the mini, sold in millions. Sadly they have lost all those buyers with this, to big, to fussy. If they had kept the original DS3 and then designed a small crossover with out the DS3 design language they cud have made a decent looking small crossover more in line with the DS7, which is a very good looking vehicle.
Here in Au all the Big Oils are building many big new petrol stations, and more in the middle of nowhere. None of which have rapid chargers. I can't help but wonder why when the gas pump is apparently going the way of the dinosaur. Makes me think that everyone driving an electric car is still a very long way off... 🤔
I liked the DS3 Etense when it first came out (before the 208 iirc). It reminds me (for the wrong reasons) of the Citroën DS4 by its practicality and purpose - being built mostly for small young families with parents who need that Lux in their life. Therefore, the backseats of the DS4 were horrendous, and I fear the same for this electric DS3. In the DS3, I sincerely disliked the window shoulder line, they could've been more fluid and "avant garde" and gave the poor kids of their snob parents a better view from inside the car. At least the DS3 Etense looks nothing like any typical cross over. Here's hoping for a flagship DS6 or DS9 that actually deserves the title of a "Big Citroën" and not something that's meant to appease to German brand tastes.
Wish you would get the terminology right in your videos, especially when you are supposed to 'experts'. For example, often saying kilowatt (kW) for the battery size, when it's actually kilowatt-hour (kWh). Giving the right info would be helpful to people new to Electric vehicles coming to this channel for the first time. How can they trust what you're saying when the basics aren't right?
I'm struggling to comprehend your positivity. It's ugly, just like its siblings. Okay, that's subjective, but come on. It has wretched range, wretched performance, and wretched charging speed. It's barely more than a city car. It's an ICEV conversion, not a purpose-built EV. That not only impedes range and performance, it also results in a higher center of mass, worse handling and a greater danger of flipping the car in an accident. Conversions made sense in 2010, but not now. Luxury appointments on such a car amount to painting a pig. You said little about the tech on board this car. The entertainment system is hard to manage, we got that much. Regenerative braking doesn't work from the accelerator pedal. You didn't mention OTA, screen responsiveness, navigation and remaining range estimation, the range per kilowatt-hour (efficiency), driver assist software, cameras, driver visibility/blind spots, or cargo capacity. You were vague about pricing. You did tell us it has headlights. Thanks. So tell us: why are you so gentle with your review, and why did you leave out so much of interest to consumers? Who is your audience?
